Boyhood Studies at 10

Imperial boyhood: piracy and the play ethic.

Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies of preserving power. This article traces the emergence of this fantasy through a series of stories about the relationship of the boy and the pirate, figures whose opposition in mid-Victorian literature was used to articulate...

Marketing : 10 Case Studies

Spinal At T 10 ( 10 th Thoracic )

Background : The historical evidence of the use of “general spinal anesthesia” introduced by Thomas Jonnesco in 1909 for the surgeries of the skull, head, neck and thorax puncturing the subarachnoid space (SAS) between 1 and 2 thoracic vertebra producing perfect and deep analgesia for the above mentioned area influenced to puncture SAS at 10 thoracic vertebra (T10) in place of puncturing SAS be...

MathWebSearch at NTCIR-10

We present and analyze the results of the MATHWEBSEARCH system in the NTCIR-10 Math pilot task, a challenge in mathematical information retrieval. MATHWEBSEARCH is a content-based search engine that focuses on fast query answering for interactive applications. It is currently restricted to exact formula search, i.e. no similarity search and no full-text search. As the MATHWEBSEARCH system has b...

IIT at TREC-10

For TREC-10, we participated in the adhoc and manual web tracks and in both the site-finding and cross-lingual tracks. For the adhoc track, we did extensive calibrations and learned that combining similarity measures yields little improvement. This year, we focused on a single highperformance similarity measure. For site finding, we implemented several algorithms that did well on the data provi...